Carlo Daffara

CTO

Carlo Daffara the Technical director of Cloudweavers, a company that developed the first hyperconverged appliance based on OpenNebula; Italian member of the European Working Group on Libre Software and co-coordinator of the working group on SMEs of the EU ICT task force on competitiveness. Since 1999, works as evaluator for IST programme submissions in the field of component-based software engineering, GRIDs and international cooperation. Coordinator of the open source platforms technical area of the IEEE technical committee on scalable computing, co-chair of the SIENA EU cloud initiative roadmap editorial board and part of the editorial review board of the International Journal of Open Source Software & Processes (IJOSSP). Has worked as a researcher in the field of collaborative development and open source business models; working with international entitities to promote the development of economic networks through open source software, recently worked with public authorities like UK JISC and CENATIC on estimating the economic impact of cloud computing and the adoption of open source development models. For OpenForum Europe has developed the first Europe-wide macroeconomic analysis of the economic value introduced by the adoption of open source software.